Lumber-guide.



F. IARViS.

LUMBER GUIDE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 23. 1918.

Patented Oct. 15, 1918.

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LUMBER-GUIDE.

1 281,383 W Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct, 15, 1918,

Application filed February 23, 1918. Serial No. 218,822.

To all whom it may concern: forked member capable of rotary movement Be it known that I, FRANK JARVIS, a citiit will be at once self-evident that the roller zen of the United States, residing at Oakes may be arranged at an angle which best in the county of Dickey and State of North meets with the requirements of practice. 60 5 Dakota, have invented certain new and use- Slidably mounted upon the shank 1 is a ful Improvements in Lumber-Guides, of pair of clamping arms 6 having their rear which the following is a specification, referor heel portions operatively engaged by the once being had to the accompanying drawscrew member 7 which operates to cause ings. their relative movements to engage a plank 65 10 This invention relates to certain improveor the like as comprised in the pile and ments in lumber guides and has relation whereby the shank 1 is anchored in applied more particularly to a device of this genposition. The upper working face of the eral character especially designed and adaptlower arm 6 is serrated or otherwise roughed for use in the piling of lumber and it is ened as at 8 to assure the proper gripping 70 an object of the invention to provide a deaction of such face upon the under surface vice of this general character which may be of a board or the like while a working end readily and efiectively supported by a lumportion of the upper arm 6 is slightly curved ber pile or the like and which is provided and tapered in order to facilitate its inserwith means to facilitate the handling of the tion in applied position and to increase the 75 planks or the like as they are applied to the efficiency of its contact with the upper surpile. face of a plank or the like. Through the It is also an object of the invention to medium of the arms 6 the shank 1 is effecprovide a novel and improved device of this tively supported by the pile with which it general character provided with means OaC S- 80 whereby a support is afforded for the frame Extending laterally from the shank 1 ador other member generally employed to as jaoent the opposite ends thereof are the arms sure the proper slant of the pile as is gen- 9 of predetermined length and which have erally preferred in lumber yards or the like. threaded through their free end portions the The invention consists in the details of Screws 10 engageable with the adjacent face 85 construction and in the combination and arof the pile whereby the shank 1 is effectively rangement of the several parts of my in braced against the strain imposed thereupon proved lumber guide whereby certain imas the planks or the like are engaged with portant advantages are attained and the deand drawn over the roller 5. For this reason vice rendered simpler less expensive and the arms 9 extend in the same general direc- 9O otherwise more convenient and advantation as the direction of travel of the planks eous for use, as will be hereinafter more or the like over the roller 5. Slidably en- 'fully set forth. gaged with the upper end portion of the The novel features of my invention will shank 1 is a sleeve or collar 11 which is held hereinafter be definitely claimed. against movement laterally of said shank 95 40 In order that my inventlon may be thebetthrough the medium of binding screws 12 ter understood, I will now proceed to deor the like and carried by the sleeve or collar scribe the same with reference to the accom- 11 are the oppositely directed arms 14 terpanying drawings wherein is illustrated a minating in the upwardly directed extenview in perspective of a lumber guide consion's 15. The arms 14 serve as a support for 100 structed in accordance with an embodiment the upper end portion of a frame or the like of my invention. which is generally employed to give to the As disclosed in the accompanying drawlumber pile the desired slant and evenness ings 1 denotes an elongated shank having which is preferred in lumber piles in the its upper end portion provided with a socket open, as in a lumber yard. 105 2 to receive the shank 3 of the forked mem- From the foregoing description it is her 4 whereby the member 4; is capable of thought to be obvious that a lumber guide rotary movement relative to the shank 1. constructed in accordance with my inven- Rotatably supported by the forked memtion is particularly well adapted for use by her 4 is the roller 5 over which planks and reason of the convenience and facility with 110 the like are adapted to be drawn in the which it may be assembled and operated and forming of a lumber pile and by having the it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification Without departing from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not Wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice except as hereinafter claimed.

The forked member 4 is locked in desired position through the medium of a screw threaded through the socket '2 Which is engageable With the shank 3 of the fork.

I claim:

1. A lumber guide comprising a shank, a fork rotatably engaged with the upper end portion of the shank, a roller carried by the fork, a securing means carried by the shank intermediate the length thereof, and oppositely directed arm's carried by the upper portion of the shank.

2. A lumber guide comprising a shank, a

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fork rotatably engaged With the upper end portion of the shank, a roller carried by the fork, securing means carried by the shank intermediate the length thereof, and oppositely directed arms carried by the upper portion of the shank, the extremities of said arms being provided With vertically directed extensions.

3. A lumber guide comprising a shank, a securing means carried by the shank intermediate the length thereof, bracing arms adjustably engaged with the shank at opposite sides of the securing means, and a member threaded through the outer extremity of each of the bracing arms.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

' FRANK JARVIS.

Witnesses W. R. Wmrvno, T. H. Knnrmz.

by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G. 

